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Randi vs Randon

American parents have registered 30,799 Randis since 1880, against 1,766 Randons. Randi is still ahead, with 34 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Randi against Randon, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Randi Randon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Randi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1931 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Randi had 74 and Randon had 30.

Side by side

  Randi Randon
Total US births 30,7991,766
Most in one year 1,10967
Babies in 2025 34under 5
Estimated living today 29,0001,600
Median age today 4135
Peak year 19821987
Best rank 235th girls1,175th boys
Rank in 2025 4,172ndunranked
First recorded 19311945
Girls / boys 29,663 / 1,13610 / 1,756

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Randis alive today are over 41; half the Randons are over 35. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Randi and Randon.